About what I said about Daniel taking Nastajia from Alex,what if it turns out that Dan and Nastajia ARE compatible and he had to take her as his queen if he wishes to stay king of Dreamland,surely Nastajia would rebel against it preferring Alex and causing such a scandal that Dan abdicates the throne-thus throwing Dreamland into chaos!!!

There’s nothing to suggest marriage between the King of Dreamland and Elven Royalty is traditional, or even necessary, now. I don’t think Oberon and Titania would go for it, I know Nas and Dan wouldn’t, and Alex and Nicole would be violently opposed. Besides, Nastajia is being taken to the Chimera/Hydra, Dan is facing Abaddon and soon the Dreamer, the Nightmare Realm is sending an army towards the Earth and another after Dreamland, and there’s no certainty the good guys are going to win or even all survive. It’s not over til the Dread Pirate Roberts sings. Whatever that means.

Did some of the panels get pulled? I could have sworn Daniel already had disbelived the illusion, done the “Kwisatz Haderach” voice blast on the nightmare beasts, and Felicity was brought out from the temple poisoned by the shadow creatures.

This chapter was mostly previously done with the old computer models. But I think it wasn’t complete. So they are doing the chapter over again with the new art. So, yes, you have seen this before. 🙂 I think there is a link to the old art in the notes to the first page of this chapter.

Just in case my previous comment in an earlier episode got missed, did you consider using multiple computers to work on different scenes in parallel? Even using old computers using your old software, surely stacking up on many pieces of hardware would solve most of your problem, unless it wasn’t rendering time that was the issue previously? Even using multiple modern comps with virtual environments to run older systems would likely work, though I think using many older comps would be cheaper, if you could get them.

If it was scene set up and design that was taking the time I can understand that this really wouldn’t help much, but I was just considering a way that would cost ‘thousands of dollars.’